24 NOVEMBER 1900, page 2

Mr. Munro-ferguson, Who Recently Resigned The Post Of...

made a rather remarkable speech at Leith last Saturday night. The pith of his address, in which the difficulties of Parliamentary life were set forth with the utmost candour,......

Lord Rosebery, We See, Is Strongly Impressed With The Belief

that rival nations are outstripping us in commerce mainly because they are educated in more modern fashion. That more care, harder work, and more pliability of the American sort......

Lord Rosebery Delivered On Friday Week, As Lord Rector Of

Glasgow University, a brilliant speech, which has subse- quently been distributed as a pamphlet. As a literary effort it was fully worthy of his reputation, and it will, we......

Mr. Morley Forwards To The Tinies (november 17th) A Very

sad letter from the seat of war. It is signed Ellie Cronje, and describes in strangely temperate words the destruction of her farmhouse by a British Colonel whose name is......

A Terrible Railway Accident Took Place On Thursday Week On

the Southern Railway of France close to St. Geours, near Dax, between Bayonne and Bordeaux. The express from Madrid. the fastest 1one-distance train in the world, was derailed......

The Passages From A Diary Found On A Dead Boer

near Thabanchu, published in Thursday's papers, are full of interest. There is a good picture of De Wet, as a man of medium height, with a reddish beard, and little fiery eyes.......

The Situation In The Theatre -of • War Is Practically

un- changed. - The Boers still show great activity in the South and East of the Orange River Colony, where four commandos vary- ing from five hundred to a thousand men are said......